GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov leads the 2026 UzChess Cup after five hard-fought rounds, where we have seen more decisive games than draws. After losing in round two against GM Hans Niemann, the Uzbek grandmaster has won three games in a row against GMs M...
Chess stepped further into the mainstream spotlight on Saturday as Grandmasters, the new docuseries featuring GMs Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Hans Niemann, and other leading figures of the game, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
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GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda impressively won Titled Tuesday on June 9 with a score of 10/11. He becomes the second player to win the new first-place prize of $2,500, and also the second player, after GM Javokhir Sindarov, to win three Titled Tuesda...
Get ready for blazing tactics and electrifying swindles! The next installment of the Chess.com Community Championships is coming with the speediest of variants. The Chess.com Hyperbullet Championship takes place from June 18 to 19 and features a $...
GMs Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Bibisara Assaubayeva are the 2026 Norway Chess and Norway Chess Women champions. Assaubayeva ran away with it, while Praggnanandhaa came clutch in a comeback that shocked the other players and even himself.
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Ukrainian WFM Anastasiia Hnatyshyn produced one of the most remarkable upsets of European championship history, winning the European Women's Championship outright in Batumi, Georgia.
The 15-year-old entered the tournament as the 76th seed in a fi...
IM Roman Shogdzhiev has become the youngest player in chess history to score a grandmaster norm, breaking a record that had stood since 2008.
The 11-year-old Russian remained undefeated against the six grandmasters he faced and scored an impressi...
GM Hikaru Nakamura continued his 2026 Bullet Brawl victory streak with a barnstorming performance in Saturday's event, racing to a 201-point victory with no rivals in sight. The American superstar finished a commanding 58 points ahead of Ukrainian...
On June 5, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk became the first player to win nine Freestyle Fridays and to win three in the 2026 Freestyle Friday Championship. A fast 9/9 start was enough to hang on to outright victory through an 0.5/2 finish as Bortnyk returns...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu is the Norway Chess 2026 champion after grinding out a win over GM Vincent Keymer to complete an amazing run of four classical wins to end the tournament. GM Wesley So beat GM Alireza Firouzja in armageddon, and he wou...